Detection of the underlying mechanisms leading to accidents resulting in fatalities and injuries is crucial to improve maritime safety. This paper examines the association between safety culture and occupational accidents in the container terminals. Within the scope of the study, six different container terminals that are situated in the Marmara Region were selected as application areas in Turkey. For the purpose of gathering information, a survey has been conducted with 134 respondents and interview has been carried out with the occupational safety specialists of ports, respectively. Collected data were analysed using SPSS 22 software to determine the safety culture level of terminals and their correlation with accidents. Data obtained from six container terminals were presented and results were discussed with respect to safety culture assessment and occupational accidents. The results highlight that the positive safety culture has a strong influence on port workers in terms of avoiding accidents. Additionally, each component related to safety culture was found in a significant correlation with the occurrences of accidents. Then again, port workers found to be rarely involved in accidents in case the safety culture level is high.

Oil pollution from ships is an important source of marine pollution and becomes an important problem all over the world. For this reason, every effort should be made to prevent oil spills and to remove them effectively as soon as pollution has emerged. In this respect, various computer simulations are used to get well informed about the fate of spilled oil on the seawater. In this study, the grounding accident of ship M/V Lady Tuna causing 75 tons of fuel spills into the sea on December 18, 2016, close to the coast of Çesme in Turkey, was investigated. The aim of the study is to investigate the oil spill accident and evaluate the response operation of M/V Lady Tuna. To achieve this aim, firstly the reports related to the accident were examined and the response operation was evaluated by modelling of the M/V Lady Tuna accident with PISCES II (Potential Incident Simulation, Control and Evaluation System) simulator. Within this scope, two scenarios were prepared by using PISCES II. The first scenario was created without any response resources to observe the movement direction of the oil slick after the accident. The second scenario was reconstructed with the possible response resources after the oil spill. Through simulation, it was possible to obtain the oil spill/pollution statistics; such as the recovered oil rate, the amount of stranded oil to the coast, the amount of floating oil rate, and other oil spill parameters. As a result, it was evaluated that the oil pollution in the M/V Lady Tuna accident could be responded more effectively and the pollution could be much less. It is assessed that the study will contribute to organizations involved in oil spill response operations.

Ports are the connection points between the sea and the land in the maritime industry, have an important role in world trade. Ports host many ships each day. The characteristics of the ships that can manoeuvre within the port limits are determined depending on the technical structure of the ports and the environmental conditions of the ports' location. The characteristics of the ships such as their type, length, width, draft, and tonnage are important factors that determine the port's limitations. If these restrictions are not followed, it is inevitable for marine accidents to happen within the port area, which can lead to severe consequences such as deaths and injuries, material damage, environmental pollution, and even disasters. Risk analysis studies are carried out in order to prevent possible accidents at the ports and to determine the perils that may occur. When the studies in this field are examined, it is determined that different risk analysis methods are utilized. By using these analysis methods, the dangers sourced from ship manoeuvring that may occur within the port limits are tried to be analysed. The purpose of this study is to create a risk analysis model to be used in the ship manoeuvres and to determine which ships are suitable for manoeuvring in a port and under which environmental conditions ship can manoeuvre. Fuzzy Fine-Kinney method was chosen as the main risk analysis methodology for this study, which has not been used in the related literature. In the study, a full mission ship's bridge simulator was used in created scenarios by taking various environmental conditions into account and coming alongside manoeuvres were carried out by masters with a pre-determined ship on a pier at a port in Istanbul. After the end of each manoeuvre, surveys were filled out and assessments were made by masters that are considered experts in the maritime domain. According to results obtained from the risk analysis method applied in the study, it was determined which ships with which characteristics are suitable for manoeuvring and under which environmental conditions.

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Artan enerji talebi, akaryakıt fiyatları ve fosil yakıtlardan kaynaklanan olumsuz çevresel etkiler, yenilenebilir ve sürdürülebilir enerjiye olan talebi artırmaktadır. Bu nedenle, rüzgâr ve güneş enerjileri günlük hayatta kullanılabilir hale gelmiş ve bu tür sistemlerin verimliliği konusunda çalışmalar hızlanmıştır. Denizcilik sektöründe de benzer bir durum yaşanmış ve yakın zamanda yenilenebilir enerji gemiler için popüler hale gelmiştir. Bu çalışmada, yakıt tüketimini ve çevre kirliliğini azaltmak amacıyla çalışma zamanının çoğunu demirde ya da iskelede geçiren bir barca rüzgâr ve güneş enerjisini kaynak olarak kullanan yenilenebilir hibrit bir enerji sistemi kurulmuştur. Kurulan sistem HOMER yazılımı ile optimize edilen konfigürasyonlarla mukayese edilmiştir. Sonuçlara göre, hibrit sistemin gemide kullanılmasıyla hesaplarda dikkate alınan süreçte yakıt tüketiminde ve emisyonlarda yaklaşık %39 oranında azalma sağlanmıştır. Sistemin geri ödeme süresi ise yaklaşık iki yıl olarak hesaplanmıştır.